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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
4.0
I enjoyed this so much. Whitehead's writing style is fantastic and he does such a great job at capturing people during moments of their lives. This is such a horrifying story and he breaks your heart with all the details.
My biggest issue was how short this was. I wanted to fall in love and feel connect to the story, but everything in it was so brief that I felt like I was being kept at a distance. The twist at the ending would have been fantastic if I'd been deeply entrenched in the characters, but I wasn't. This book felt like it needed another hundred pages to fully tell this story.
I really look forward to reading Colson Whitehead again, perhaps with a slightly longer book. This has also made me really want to pick up Erin Kimmerle's nonfiction book about the real life school this was based on.
My biggest issue was how short this was. I wanted to fall in love and feel connect to the story, but everything in it was so brief that I felt like I was being kept at a distance. The twist at the ending would have been fantastic if I'd been deeply entrenched in the characters, but I wasn't. This book felt like it needed another hundred pages to fully tell this story.
I really look forward to reading Colson Whitehead again, perhaps with a slightly longer book. This has also made me really want to pick up Erin Kimmerle's nonfiction book about the real life school this was based on.